“Final Edition” Beetle…going, going…
Since as most of you know, I’m hot and heavy in the VW / BMW biz these days…
Why not share?
Especially since we’re in a pretty heavy duty transition now in terms of our automotive futures. And of course, that controversial – end-of-days – “Green New Deal” everyone is talking about.
Which translates in real world terms to details like:
***** “We’ll be saying goodbye to VW’s gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles in about seven years,” the VW Club mag Autoist reports. “”VW says it expects the era of the combustion car to end in 2026.”
Forget about the political lunacy of late, to me, that’s a pretty sobering pronouncement.
Think about it; just this past year Volkswagen instituted an unheard of 6 year, 72,000 mile bumper-to-bumper warranty on all of its vehicles sold in this country. Loosely translated, not long after those cars being sold today run out of warranty, we may not be replacing them with gasoline powered engines.
Meaning that people like me who drive virtually everywhere – including for vacations – will somehow have to rely on battery power and or some other fuel source. Hard to fully imagine. Kinda like hopping a train for Honolulu in the Green New Deal.
******* 40 years ago VW Clubers flew to Germany to take delivery in Wolfsburg of “Beetles by the dozen,” choking out a mere $1,500 per car in 1968 (about $10,800 in today’s dollars).
The latest: Today “prosperous” Germans are flying to the USA by the “planeload” to buy American-made VWs (but not Beetles, which are made in Mexico but are in the last year of production).
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Hey HC, my mom bought a brand new VW bug from Angle VW on North Oak Trafficway in 1969. The TV advertisement stated “Still under $2,000”. She got a base model and paid $1875 brand spankin’ new. That was our only vehicle for mom and three kids. No A/C and took a driving summer vacation to California as well as Six Flags Over Texas. Awww, the good ‘ol days.
Sounds pretty real!
I’m going to add a link here to an old VW video ad that I sent to a couple who were afraid the new Beetle would be too small for their king-sized bodies. FYI, the new Beetles front seats are HUGE
Check this one out KU fans…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8s4BAB5fEY
End of internal combustion engines by 2026? Laughable. Good Lord, I really wonder what planet these people live on. Fossil fuels are so deeply embedded worldwide, it’s going to take 20-30 years to get off of them. Let me know when they start making electric airplanes. And ships.
I’m with you, Guy….
But this isn’t some off pronouncement by AOC, this is the largest car manufacturer in the world!
“***** “We’ll be saying goodbye to VW’s gasoline and diesel-powered vehicles in about seven years,” the VW Club mag Autoist reports. “”VW says it expects the era of the combustion car to end in 2026.”
So, even if there are more and more electric cars on the road, don’t they have to acquire energy/fuel from sources that are fossil fuel driven? The electricity in my house, is fossil fuel driven. Why would there be a ROI on re-tooling an entire company when your competition remains committed to producing cars with combustible engines that burn ever more cheaper gas, provided by more and more discoveries of available fuel, in combination with technology that brings that energy to market at an ever reducing rate, at least for the foreseeable future?
If you Google “Recent Oil Finds” there is a list, a long list of viable and exciting sources of energy that must have T Boone Pickens throwing what’s left of his cash into Oil Stocks.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2008/0618/pickens-oil-production-has-peaked
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I get that hindsight is 20/20 and prescience is hard to come by ,while congratulating VW for there temerity.
Me, I don’t believe for a second that we are all gonna be tooling around town in Electric cars by 2025, or even 2040.
Hard to imagine driving to Chattanooga let alone Jerome, Arizona in an electric VW